My piece about a restaurant in Hangzhou appears in this weeks New Yorker Food Issue. It's the first time I've written for the magazine.

Below are some of the photographs I took while researching the piece;

 

 

This is one of the private rooms at the Dragon Well Manor restaurant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The owner, A Dai (a.k.a. Dai Jianjun), with me on a fishing boat 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 One of the restaurant's many small-scale suppliers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Another supplier, with some aubergines (eggplants)

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Bao Laichun, on the way back from a foraging trip to gather wild kiwi fruits

 

 

  

 

This is me, with some fishermen on a VERY unstable fishing boat, just before the deluge... still scribbling away in my notebook, which was getting damper by the minute... 

 

 

 

   

 

 A delivery of chickens

 

 

 

 

 

 

A few hours later...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stir-fried freshwater shrimp (yum yum)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Qian Lu in the garden